Queer Africans Deserve Better Media Representation

Why I’m fighting to make non-Western queer people of color more visible.

TED Fellows program
TED Fellows
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5 min readAug 28, 2019

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By TED Fellow Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile, as told to Julie Zeilinger

When I appeared on My Star — Botswana’s version of American Idol — in 2011, I became one of the first widely celebrated queer personalities in the country. I…

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